Police Charge 2 In Slaying At Hospital Lot

October 25, 1990|By Laurie Goering.

Two South Side men were charged Wednesday with the armed robbery and murder of a young South Side restaurant owner who was gunned down in the parking lot of Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park as she came to visit her ill boyfriend.

Margaret Hill, 26, died early Wednesday morning after being shot in the head while she struggled with two men who were trying to steal her gray 1985 Mercedes Benz, according to Evergreen Park police.

A bond hearing for the two suspects, Calvin Davis, 21, of 107th Street and Yates Avenue, and Donnell Lindsey Jr., 17, of 8515 E. Phillips Ave., was set for Thursday morning at the Bridgeview courthouse. Davis earlier had given his name to police as Calvin Compton.

According to Lt. Thomas Evoy of the Evergreen Park Police, Hill had just arrived in the west parking lot of Little Company of Mary Hospital, at 95th Street and Francisco Avenue in Evergreen Park, about 11:20 p.m. when two men approached her car, apparently intent on stealing it.

She struggled with them, according to authorities, and was dragged out of the car, thrown to the ground and shot once in the head.

Her attackers then raced out of the parking lot in the Mercedes, Evoy said.

An Evergreen Park policeman who was patroling the area and heard the shots saw the car leave the parking lot and followed it, Evoy said. Two blocks away, at 96th Street and Richmond Avenue, the Mercedes crashed into a parked car, he said, and the men got out and fled on foot, followed by the officer, who radioed for assistance.

Though police lost the men, the two suspects were arrested ``within the hour`` during an intensive search of the area, Evoy said. No gun was found, but police recovered a vehicle Hill`s attackers had apparently driven to the scene of the crime.

Carole Wilson, a spokeswoman for Little Company of Mary, said paramedics, who were at the emergency room door and heard the gunshot, rushed Hill into the hospital after the shooting. However, she died at 4:09 a.m. of the wound, Wilson said.

Hill had come to the hospital from the Bonanza restaurant she owned at 1647 W. 95th St. to visit her boyfriend, who was suffering from an